![]() The imagined destination of the rope beyond the Museum added to the scale of the work and gave it an outdoor character. We proposed a sculpture in the form of a "stake", sunk in the floor, to which a rope was tied that extended, in a long, taut curve into the ceiling of the vault. The challenge, as we saw it, was to reach the upper area of the vault and link it to the rest of the room. ![]() The artist Sol LeWitt was also asked to provide a large mural at one end of the vault. In 1981, we were commissioned to create a sculpture as part of a group of works to be permanently installed in a vast 45 foot high barrel-vaulted space in the center of the new Dallas Museum of Art, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. Total height, including upper and lower floor: 53 ft. (0.51 m) diameter length, knot to ceiling: 40 ft. Rope: polyurethane foam, plastic materials, fiberglass-reinforced plastic, painted with latex For more info, call 24, or visit /.Stake: aluminum, steel, resin, painted with polyurethane enamel In every piece I make that’s how I go about it – it’s something someone’s going to look at for years to come, and it’s something that I like to do.” “That statement stuck with me and I wanted to do the best job I could do. “What my father used to tell me, a little saying I’ve never forgot, he always said, ‘He who works with his hands is a laborer, he who works with his hands and head is a craftsman, he who works with his hands and his head and his heart is a true artist,'” Torelli says. Torelli says he has gotten a following at the art shows he does around the state, and as he brings about 150 of his spike art pieces to Art-on-the-Lake, he looks forward to seeing his fans there. With a variety of juried art media, food vendors and children’s crafts, the show runs from 10 a.m. Torelli is one of more than 100 award-winning artists featured in the second annual Northfield Hills Art-on-the-Lake in Troy. A majority of his works are small scale, but he also builds some large-scale works as well, including models of buildings or “Star Wars” inspired art. In addition to finding inspiration in the world around him, Torelli also makes custom pieces by request. ![]() His pieces vary from serious subjects to more silly works, though he always puts thought, care and time into all of them. If you can take a piece of steel, twist it up and make somebody chuckle, you’ve done something right.”Īfter spending 34 years working in injection molding, Torelli switched fields to make art his full-time gig in 2006, two years after creating that first piece and doing his first art show. “When somebody laughs at my work I know I’ve done my job, because I want it to be humorous. ![]() ![]() “I find it relaxing to do, and I just find it gratifying to build something for somebody and see the smile on their face when they look at it – It makes it all worth it,” Torelli says. What started as a joke for his son was an eye opener that made him realize how much he enjoyed being creative – and that others appreciated his art, as well. Anyone that worked in the tool trade realizes there’s only seven days and you’re working all of them.” I never had the opportunity to do it because I didn’t have the time. “I was in the industrial force because I had to make a living, but my passion was always art. “I’d always dabbled in art as a kid, but I started extremely late,” says Torelli, of Ortonville. These are just a few of the subjects of artist and former toolmaker Gino Torelli’s creations through his company, Spike Art Inc. A veterinarian doing a check-up on a puppy. ![]()
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